"The League of Schools." Continuation

SK will not initiate a case against school leaders. The refusal resolution is new evidence of victims of sexual harassment

In January 2017, Medusa published an investigation about a small Moscow school for gifted children of the Liga School. According to graduates and former employees, the director of the educational institution Sergey Bebchuk and his deputy Nikolai Izumov for 20 years have sexually harassed the students. After the publication, new evidence appeared; The Investigative Committee began checking. However, as it became known to Medusa, on April 24, the investigation refused to institute criminal proceedings against Bebchuk and Izumov, referring to the fact that the victims did not turn to the police on time. A group of graduates of the League of Schools, which initiated its own investigation, is going to protest this decision; How is it unknown. "Medusa" studied the decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case - and tells what it says.

Update : SK canceled the refusal to institute criminal proceedings on the "School League", said SKA Svetlana Petrenko, official representative of the UK. Such a decision, according to her, was made due to "incompleteness of investigative actions."

As Majita Belousov, an investigator of the Cheremushkinsky Interdistrict Investigative Directorate of Moscow, signed a decision to refuse to institute criminal proceedings against the director of the “School League” Sergei Bebchuk and his deputy Nikolai Izumov on April 24, 2017, on April 24, 2017, on April 24, 2017.

The audit began after Medusa in January 2017 published a certificate of dozens of former students of the Moscow school for gifted children who accused Bebchuk and Izumov of sexual harassment. They claimed that Bobchuk and Raisins harassed the students for 20 years. The investigation said in detail that the nature of harassment ranged from psychological pressure to petting and sex. Former students noted that all this was happening in the school building, in campaigns, at the Babchuk dacha, in the Porechye boarding house.

Senator Elena Mizulina, Minister of Education Olga Vasilieva spoke about the publication; The plots of harassment in the League of Schools reached most federal television channels. Some graduates of the League of Schools and former teachers did not believe the certificates of sexual harassment; They united in the community of the "League of Schools. Good name. " Medusa received several individual and collective letters from graduates and teachers who reject the accusations against Bebchuk and Izumov.

Investigator Belousov indicated that the criminal case was refused, since all the people who spoke about sexual harassment did not contact the police in a timely manner with written statements. The resolution additionally noted that “they were not threatened and not interfered with to turn,” and other pupils surveyed did not confirm unlawful actions.

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The 30-page decision on the refusal to institute criminal proceedings (is at the disposal of “Medusa”) that the actions of Sergei Bobchuk and Nikolai Izumov lack signs of a crime under Article 135 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“depraved actions”). In addition, it follows from the decision that the UK refused to initiate a criminal case under part 2 of Article 306 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“False denunciation”) against several witnesses who talked about sexual harassment by Bobchuk and Izumov.

At the same time, already on the second page in the resolution there are testimonies of victims of sexual harassment. One of them told the investigator that in 2008, Bobchuk approached her during a campaign in the Carpathians, hugged, began to stroke around her neck, over her hair. Bebchuk told her that "he has been in love with her for a long time and knows that she is also not indifferent to him." Bebchuk asked her: "Do you want?" The girl refused.

A few days after giving these testimonies, she took them and stated that she did not consider herself a victim.

One of the former students of the League of Schools told the investigator that Nikolai Izumov “quickly kissed some on the cheek, others could clamp on the wall and kiss for a long time in my cheeks, forehead, chin, ears”, “periodically he could put on his knees, kiss his neck”, “sometimes he could come behind, hit the palm on the pope, and he wants to say something in his ear, while he wants to say something in his ear, while he wants to say something in his ear, while he wants to say something in his ear, while he wants to say something in his ear. To start kissing the neck, lick his ear, ”“ had a great authority, she did not dare to tell him that she did not like his actions, fearing that because of this she would have problems at school. ”

Another student said that Izumov "periodically stood at the entrance to school, hugged, kissed the lips, ears", "violated the boundaries of personal space." He periodically called her to his office, where he put her on his knees, kissed his lips and put his tongue in his mouth, stroked his body, including intimate zones.

The investigator also talked to the victims that Medusa wrote about: Nina (the name changed), Lyudmila Solovyova , Lida (name changed), Vera Baykovskaya. Nina said that Izumov “performed unlawful actions against her, inviting him to her apartment” (“Medusa” she said that Idumov demanded from her to remove the jacket and lie on the bed).

Solovyeva explained to the investigator that in the summer of 2007, Bobchuk at his cottage in Bobrovo approached her, hugged her shoulders, kissed his lips for three seconds. She talked about the harassment of Izumov: he put her on his knees, stroked, climbed under the jacket, touched her chest. Another sacrifice explained to the investigator that Izumov also put her on his knees, climbed under the jacket, kissed.

Another graduate of the League of Schools told the investigation that during a trip to the Winter camp, Porechye, Izumov often went into the rooms of the girls and woke them with kisses. In 2003, Izumov, in the presence of witnesses, “squeezed it with his body so that she could not leave somewhere”-and “made its body reciprocating movements, periodically touching it, kissed, stroked her hair.” The decision stated that the victim did not apply to the police about depraved actions and therefore "the investigation has no reason to trust her testimony." “The investigation comes to the conclusion that at the time of depraved actions by Izumov [the victim] has already reached the age of 14 years,” the resolution says.

Vera Baikovskaya in the testimony said that in the summer of 2007, Bobchuk demanded that she undress. She added that in one of the mathematics classes, Bobchuk grabbed her hair, began to beat his head against the wall, asked, "why did she have a head." In addition, the investigator Baikovskaya told the investigator, once at school, Bobchuk locked her in the office; He asked her if she drinks beer from her neck, which "means the desire to make a blowjob." According to her, in one of the physical education classes, Izumov was in short shorts (such that genitals are visible) and told the girl that she had beautiful knees. The same raisins, when she studied in the seventh grade, went up to her from behind and acquired by the hips.

Several students told the investigator that they had never heard about depraved actions by the director and his deputy during their studies. One of them at the same time confirmed that Izyumov kissed every schoolgirl at the entrance to the Building School building. Another student "never from anyone heard any stories about the performance of unlawful actions." She said that "in a bathhouse in Bobrovo they gathered only to wash." (Several graduates of the League of Schools told Medusa about sexual harassment in the bathhouse in Bobchuk in Bobrovo. One of them, Tatyana Karsen, said that in 2014, Bobchuk invited her to go in mathematics in the bath; he got a broom, he sat on the bench next to her and acquired. We will succeed, ”said Bobchuk and kissed the schoolgirl on the lips.

In a conversation with the investigator, Sergei Bebchuk denied any illegal actions against students. Nikolai Izyumov said that he had never tried to seduce any of the students, did not kiss his lips, did not put him on his knees, did not climb under their clothes. In January 2017, Izumov said “Meduza” that he “always approached, gently woke up, he personally said“ good morning ””: “kissed on the cheeks, on the forehead, such gentle relationships with each other are important, I taught children to this.” He told Medusa about one of the victims: “She was a small flower for me.” In an interview with the Moscow Komsomol member, he noted : "The students themselves kissed me."

On May 30, 2017, the acquaintance of Sergei Bebchuk Ilya Harit said that they were able to “overcome the raids of [senator] Mizulina and [deputy] Milonov, who bombed the investigation with the demands of the bebchuk’s crucifix”; He promised Facebook that he would soon "begin the trial for the protection of honor and dignity."

The initiator of the investigation of graduates about sexual harassment Svetlana Bozrov told Medusa that on Friday, June 2, he will discuss further actions with a lawyer and other victims of sexual violence. “We will definitely file an appeal, we will have to do a lot of work again, fix all cases again,” Bozova said.

Daniil Turovsky